1. Use bison resources listed above OR find other on line. If you find others that you think are good, post them to the wiki.
2. Choose a focus question:
What hunting methods were used for the bison and how did they work?
How did the First Nations people use the bison?
How was hunting bison different after the arrival of the Europeans?
3. Research your question.
4. Use the information that you find to write a descriptive account of a bison hunt. Write it from a hunter's point of view, a villager preparing the bison after the hunt or the bison itself. Set it either before or after European contact.
Plants Indiginous to the Prairies
Here is a list of links to sites compiled by your classmates that will be useful to identify plants that were indiginous to the prairies prior to European contact as well as the many uses that First Nations People had for them.
1. Use plant resources listed above OR find others on line. If you find others that you think are good, post them to the wiki. 2. Choose a focus question: What plants were used by the First Nations people and what were they used for? How did they harvest, gather, cook or preserve the plants for use? How were the plants native to the prairies used by the first Europeans? 3. Research your question. 4. Use the information that you find to write a descriptive account of an event or events in the life of a member of a First Nation. A) Write it from a Medicine Person’s point of view, B) a villager preparing the food for their people, C) a child helping his/her mother with the gathering or preparing or D) helping a medicine man/healer or E) from the point of view of someone who used plant materials to make tools or instruments for use within the village. F) You could also write the descriptive account from the point of view of an early settler on the prairies. Set it either before or after European contact. 5. Include a minimum of 10 plants within your creative writing. Describe fully how you used the plant in your story. 6. Hand in an outline with the premise and the events laid out. 7. Final copy should include diagrams.
The Bison
Here is a list of resources that your classmates have compiled for you about the First Nations People and The BisonRoyal Saskatchewan Museum: Bison Hide Tipi
How to tan a bison hide
Taning and use of the bisonhis guy butchered and tans a hide in his apartment! Pretty interesting!
- More Than Meat
- Bison Hide Tanning Part 1
- Bison Hide Tanning Part 2
- Then he made soap from the fat
Want to make Pemmican? Click hereWikipedia Bison
Different Uses of Bison
What Bison Parts Are Used For
Buffalo/Bison
Fun Facts and Information About Bison
buffalo
Buffalo Jump
Methods for the hunt
First Nations and the Bison
Note: this website is the same as Taning and use of the bison
Hunting bison
1. Use bison resources listed above OR find other on line. If you find others that you think are good, post them to the wiki.
2. Choose a focus question:
What hunting methods were used for the bison and how did they work?
How did the First Nations people use the bison?
How was hunting bison different after the arrival of the Europeans?
3. Research your question.
4. Use the information that you find to write a descriptive account of a bison hunt. Write it from a hunter's point of view, a villager preparing the bison after the hunt or the bison itself. Set it either before or after European contact.
Plants Indiginous to the Prairies
Here is a list of links to sites compiled by your classmates that will be useful to identify plants that were indiginous to the prairies prior to European contact as well as the many uses that First Nations People had for them.
Native Saskatchewan Plants and Herbs Jenny
Medicinal Plant Traditional Uses KAYLA, KIM, cody
What the ecosystem would be if the Euros didn't come!
Native Plant Database Nicole, George, Brandon
Medical uses for Plants-Sarah, Kaitlin
Plant Society of SK August and Zach
First Nation uses for prairie plants-Kaitlin
Ways First Nations Helped the European Settlers-Food
Plant Writing Assignment
1. Use plant resources listed above OR find others on line. If you find others that you think are good, post them to the wiki.
2. Choose a focus question:
What plants were used by the First Nations people and what were they used for?
How did they harvest, gather, cook or preserve the plants for use?
How were the plants native to the prairies used by the first Europeans?
3. Research your question.
4. Use the information that you find to write a descriptive account of an event or events in the life of a member of a First Nation. A) Write it from a Medicine Person’s point of view, B) a villager preparing the food for their people, C) a child helping his/her mother with the gathering or preparing or D) helping a medicine man/healer or E) from the point of view of someone who used plant materials to make tools or instruments for use within the village. F) You could also write the descriptive account from the point of view of an early settler on the prairies.
Set it either before or after European contact.
5. Include a minimum of 10 plants within your creative writing. Describe fully how you used the plant in your story.
6. Hand in an outline with the premise and the events laid out.
7. Final copy should include diagrams.
Farming Pre and Post European Contact
Here is a list of links to help you with your upcoming assignments.http://www.gov.sk.ca/Default.aspx?DN=5e78fa0e-4a3f-41f6-b93e-e01d7b5f607f
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/farming-and-the-environment/2
http://www.fnmr.gov.sk.ca/lands/tle/history/1
olc.spsd.sk.ca/De/saskatchewan100/.../WDM/SettlerRelations.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Saskatchewan
http://www.saskrce.ca/farming-and-local-food-production?page=23
http://www.altnature.com/